This paper outlines ongoing work in the area of metadata for events which is being undertaken by Australia’s ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in education agency, education.au. Calendars of conferences, opportunities and celebrations of interest to Australia’s education and training community are a core service of Education Network Australia (edna), education.au’s premier service...

These notes are not necessarily an accurate representation of what happened in class. The notes written before class say what I think I should say. I sometimes edit the notes after class to make them way what I wish I had said. There may be small mistakes, so I recommend that you check any mathematically precise statement before using it in your own work. These notes were last revised on Decemb...

Within a framework provided by the traditional trio consisting of metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, a first stab is made at a wish list for MIR-research from a philosophical point of view. Since the tools of MIR are equipped to study language and its use from a purely sonic standpoint, MIR research could result in another revealing revolution within the linguistic turn in philosophy.

Facing the increasing user diversity and broad diffusion of technology in work-related and private contexts, the sensible tailoring of technology functionalities, attributes, and interfaces – with reference to the requirements and needs of users – is a key prerequisite of a successful rollout and broad acceptance of technologies. However, user diversity and the specific using contexts of techno...

This paper describes a technique to e ectively isolate mobile objects or processes that execute downloaded, potentially suspicious programs. It relies on wish lists, trust lists and capability lists. Wish lists are carried along with programs or mobile objects and denote the resources requested by the program to do what it claims to do. Wish lists are transformed into capability lists when down...